Xia Xiaoxi

Left Midfielder - Meizhou Hakka
3 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Xia Xiaoxi

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The Meizhou Hakka Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Fu Huan pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Tempers go at Meizhou Hakka

Xiong Jizheng was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Xia Xiaoxi makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

Back issues
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The Meizhou Hakka Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

10 saves: Sun Jianxiang was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mamadou Traoré

Meizhou Hakka asked and Dalian Yingbo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

A bad afternoon for Meizhou Hakka against Qingdao West Coast

0‑1 to Qingdao West Coast, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Dalian Yingbo join the queue for Deng Xiongtao

Add another name to the list: Dalian Yingbo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Deng Xiongtao. The answer from Meizhou Hakka has not changed — yet.

Squad

No place for Haruna Hassan in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Meizhou Hakka are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad

Deng Xiongtao stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Deng Xiongtao and Meizhou Hakka agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Talks stall between Meizhou Hakka and Song Long

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Song Aihui answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Transfer targets

Meizhou Hakka ask about Xia Xiaoxi

A loan enquiry to Wuhan Three Towns: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

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The Wuhan Three Towns Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Gustavo Sauer stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gustavo Sauer and Wuhan Three Towns agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A row about effort at Wuhan Three Towns

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gustavo Sauer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Jhonder Cádiz’s goal not enough for Wuhan Three Towns

Jhonder Cádiz scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Shanghai Port, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Transfer targets

Wuhan Three Towns rebuffed over Xie Pengfei

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shanghai Shenhua have kept their man, and Wuhan Three Towns go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A falling-out at Wuhan Three Towns

Zheng Kaimu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Meizhou Hakka join the queue for Xia Xiaoxi

Add another name to the list: Meizhou Hakka have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Xia Xiaoxi. The answer from Wuhan Three Towns has not changed — yet.

Market

The clock runs on Gustavo Sauer's contract

24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The dugout

Fu Boxi: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Transfer targets

Wuhan Three Towns ask about Masataka Kobayashi

A loan enquiry to FC Tokyo: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief